5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 06:34:46PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 18:07 schrieb Pierre-Luc Drouin:
> > Christian Brueffer wrote:
> > >On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> > >>Since I upgraded from 5.3-stable to 5.4-prerelease, I've noticed that my
> > >>computer is hanging badly under load. I've a P4 2.53 GHz without
> > >>hyperthreading (no SMP). I use the same kernel configurations than
> > >>before. Now when I compile a port for example, the mouse pointer hangs
> > >>in Fluxbox and Mozilla takes forever (meaning ~5 sec) to refresh the
> > >>screen. Even vi hangs. I do not see any warning/error message. Is it a
> > >>known problem with 5.4?
> > >
> > >I have experienced something similar, putting the following into rc.conf
> > >worked for me:
> > >
> > >performance_cpu_freq="HIGH"
> > >
> > >- Christian
> >
> > Yes, this seams to fix it. I didn't know that I had a laptop? :)
> 
> Huh? I thought by default it is "HIGH", but it would also explain the 
> experiences in the thread "cpufreq related RELENG_5 regression" 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=389949+393881+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-stable/20050327.freebsd-stable)
> 

Actually I mentioned the workaround in the first message of that thread :-)

- Christian

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